This blog post discussesAWS Lambda layersand providesbest practices for their use.Ran Isenberg explains thatLambda layers can reduce deployment time and increase production efficiency, butthey are often misunderstood and underutilized. The post coversthe basics of Lambda layers, theirprosandcons, a.. read more  

Spotify is testingplaylists that can be unlocked through non-fungible tokens (NFTs)held by members of specific communities in select countries. Kingship, a metaverse band signed to Universal Music Group, tweeted that Spotify was piloting playlists that could be accessed only byKingship key card NFT.. read more  

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI,has been removed from several Chinese social media platforms. Although the chatbot is not officially available in China, some apps on the WeChat platform had allowed access to it without the need for a VPN or foreign mobile number. It.. read more  

It seems that the tech industry is facingfour major challenges, which the author calls the "four horsemen of the tech recession". The first horseman is the COVID hangover, as COVID has had a significant impact on the tech industry, accelerating investments in cloud computing and e-commerce, while a.. read more  

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to useNGINX, andGunicorn+Uvicornto deploy aFastAPIapp, and generate afree SSL certificatefor it. The guide covers commonDebian-basedserver commands and best practices to secure a Linux server, making it a useful read... read more  

This article is about how the author builta serverless app that uses ChatGPT, a language model AI,to create daily workout planswith variance for him. The author explains how they built the app and how it works, including the services they used, the data model, and the APIs. The author also shares t.. read more  

Cybersecurity researchers have identified41 malicious "imposter packages"on the PythonPackage Index (PyPI)repository that are posing astyposquattedversionsof popular libraries. The packages, which have names similar to legitimate modules, such as requests, urllib and urllib3, have descriptions that.. read more  

Sentry, the APM platform, now supports OpenTelemetry, the open standard for observability. With this support, developers can use Sentry's modern APM to make their observability data actionable. Currently, support is available for Golang, Node.js, Python, Ruby, with Java and .NET coming soon.. read more  

CPython and PyPy can interpret the Python language specification differently due to deliberate flexibility in the specification. The specification allows forvariations in implementation techniques, such asobject destructors, which can affect how programs run. The specification also leaves certain a.. read more  

The author usedGPT-3 to control their Hue Lightswith simple instructions such as ‘make the lights blue’, ‘make one light pink and one like orange’ or ‘make them fancy’. They wrote the project in Pythonusing the phue libraryto talk to their Hue lights. They integrated this with GPT-3 by asking it to.. read more